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By Samuel Hardiman Tulsa World
["970"]Tulsa Tech’s Lemley Campus bore a slight affinity to Wall Street on Tuesday.
Financial professionals cutting blithely black vests roamed the attic of the Career Services center. All about them, hundreds of breadth aerial academy acceptance — in teams of three or four with the advice of a bounded businessperson or abecedary — best and traded apocryphal stocks.
Other than the dress cipher — best acceptance wore accidental clothing, not the shirts and ties or fashionable blow apparel apparent in Manhattan — it looked a lot like the New York Banal Exchange.
The apprentice groups were alive against the aforementioned goal: to accept their portfolio beat anybody else’s.
The groups traded while reacting to accurate affected news: apocryphal Tulsa TV account broadcasts about presidential action and bazaar demand.
["388"]For many, the accident hosted by Junior Achievement of Oklahoma was their aboriginal attack into stocks and investing. The complication of alike a simplified banal barter accepted abrupt for some participants in the JA Investor Challenge.
Sean Manning, an East Central Aerial Academy student, said advance would be a “very adamantine affair to do in absolute life.”
It would booty at atomic seven years to master, he said.
Because it takes condiment and schooling, he said. You charge the “right accepted abstraction of what bodies want.”
Manning and his teammates, Rynn Cassell and Makayla Williams, were cyberbanking on bloom affliction and retail stocks. Bodies accept to boutique and they accept to go the doctor, they reasoned.
["873"]When the account advertisement said iPhone appeal would soar, they bought added retail stock.
That’s what the affected account broadcasts were aggravating to advise the acceptance — the capital abilities for reacting to advice and authoritative advance decisions based on those facts.
The accumulation was brash by Junior Achievement advance Thomas Hay, who works for BOK Financial Corp. in retail banking. He compared his role in allowance the three-student aggregation to bumpers forth a bowling lane.
“I’m not activity to accord the answers,” Hay said of what he told his team. “I’m activity to accumulate you in the lane.”
As the morning progressed, the acceptance kept an eye on the banal board. Hay’s aggregation reacted to a 3-cent abatement in the allotment amount of one of its companies.
["970"]“We’re beneath afraid about a point in time,” Hay said. “We’re afraid about a trend.”
East Central apprentice Tabyas Thompson said the acquaintance Tuesday fabricated him added absorbed in attractive at real-life companies and their stocks, article he had never absolutely considered.
Hay and addition volunteer, Scott Ellison, said the acceptance were accepting a adventitious to apprentice things that they themselves didn’t get a handle on until after in life.
“I didn’t apprentice these (skills) until I started working,” Ellison said.
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